Iron County register., 1887-05-12

groa Gu,.uty gegister
BY ELL D. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
GENERAL, SHERIDAN has abandoned his
proposed ride through the shenandoah
valley.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has signed
the bill making Saturday half hollda!
throughout the State. Ii goes into enect
on the 21st instant.
Mr.. LUCAS, appointed United States Sen
ator for West Virginia by the Governor
proposes to contest the legislative cleo
ton of Mr.. Faulkner.
THE dinner at the Presidents mansion
on the night of the 9Th, given in honor o.
Queen Kapiolani, was brilliant aHair
Thirty-four covers were laid.
THE earthquake in the Southwest on the
Sd was more serious than first reports In
dicated 1t extended from FL Paso to
California, and also to Guaymas, Mexico
A PROTEST has been received by tn,
IN
American commercial agent at London
Ont, against the operation OF the Inter
State Commerce act.
THE largest gas we'll in the world ha!
Just been discovered at Paramount, Ind
The test Of Prof. Orton, State Geologist
of Ohio, shows that it is flowing nearly
12,0O0, 600 feet per day.
Elizabeth Cleveland has returned to he
first calling by accepting the position o
first assistant in a well-known school TO
young ladies in that city.
THE government side of the Britisl
House of Commons refused to call tn
London Times management to the bar o
of the House for the assault on John Dill
Ion, but suggested libel proceedings.
JOHN j. CoRNELIsoN. who cowhide'
Judge Reid, of Kentucky, driving him t
suicide, has been released from the Louis
vile jail, on a writ of habeas corpus, is
sued in contempt of the Court of Appeals
THE wife of ex-senator Thurman, VIII
has been slightly i'll for several week
with bronchial affection, was announce
as alarmlngly i'll on the night of the 2d
She was seventy-two years old on tina
day.
IT is learned from Sir John Macdonald
the Canadian Premier, that he (Sir John
is to be raised to the peerage on June 2
He will be given a seat in the House
Lords and will retire permanently froI
politics.
In order to hasten the progress of th
Crime bill, it IS stated that the govern
ment intends to apply the cloture rule
the House of Commons after very brie
discussion, except in the case of i'm por
tant amendments.
NJ ScHNAEBELEs has given notice tina
he will refuse to accept the diamond eros:
which it was proposed to give him, an
the donations which have been made t.
ward the purchase have been given to tn
AlSace-LOrralne society.
THE Secretary of State is officially IL
formed of the establishment of blockad
by Italy on the coast of Abyssinia frol
Amphyllia to a point opposite the islam
of Dufuein, and that the prize court WI
eventually sit at Messina.
TIE thirteen members of the Royal Iris
constabulary force, who, unable to endul
the scenes of hardship and misery wh1c
they were daily called upon to take pal
in, resigned their positions and sailed Il
free America, arrived in New York {
the 9th.
MR.. GLADSTONE, in a letter asking to
excused from attending a meeting in +
vor of the anti-vaccination movemen
gives as one of his reasons the statemer
that he is busily engaged in opposing tn
compulsory inoculation of the whole Iris
nation with the Coercion bill
IT is reported at Washington that rul
ture has occurred between United State
Minister Phelps and Consul General Wa
ler of London. The report is that the di
ficulty is of such of such a nature tn
the resignation of one or the other OF tt
gentlemen is certain to follow.
CASPER b. BORGESS., Catholic Bishop
Detroit, Mich, has resigned. During h
seventeen years, incumbency he b;
had very many troubles, and before SEN
ing in his resignation promulgated SCI
tence of accommodation against tho
concerned in the Polish riots year ag
IT is announced that Harry Miner b
closed a contract, through his Lond
agent, with Mrs. James Brown Potter, I
an American tour. She Is to open in Ne
York October 10, at one of the up-tov
theatres for six weeks stand, and w
then take the road, visiting, howeve
only the principal cities.
EMIL SoLLARI, the Washington salot
keeper who devised the scheme OF soci
club to cover the sale of liquor on Sunda
was fined in the police court on the 4
for violation of the Sunday law. 7
Judge held that the evidence showed clea
" an intent to evade the law and up
that ground imposed fine of twenty d.
lars.
THE point having been raised that t
Treasury Department has no right to ali
the existing designs of the United Stat
coins without express authority from Ct
gress, the circulars issued month ago
viting designs for silver dollars and min
coins, and promising prize of s., 500
the person whose design was accepts
have been withdrawn.
THE Prince and Princess of Wales a
their daughters, the Marquis of Lorne a
Princess Louise, and the Countess I
Paris, accompanied by brilliant suit
visited the American exhibition a